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Monday, October 01, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS:  The clip for "I'm Impressed" is a Greco-Roman epic... with robots and tanks.

THE PIPETTES have been forced to delay their US tour until Oct. 25  in L.A. due to visa problems, but will be announcing rescheduled tour dates ASAP.  Their debut LP finally reaches the US tomorrow, so this gives folks more time to hear them, too.  And I won't miss Tuesday's installment of The War on PBS.

OKKERVIL RIVER frontman Will Scheff talks to Filter about the general musical influences on The Stage Names album and his fave lyricists.  He talks to the Philadelphia Daily news about some of the songs on the album, with a number of movie references in the answers.  The latter raises my suspicion that referring to Okkervil as a "mid-level band" in "Unless It's Kicks" is an allusion to Almost Famous.

IRON & WINE played DC's 9:30 Club Saturday night, so you can stream the whole gig on demand via NPR.

JENS LEKMAN is "encouraging journalists to make up stories" about him.  He also tells London's Guardian that he writes songs to force himself to do things, or to cheer himself up.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE played DC's 9:30 Club Friday night, so you can stream the whole gig on demand via NPR.  The band was also briefly profiled in the NY Daily News last Friday.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  The supposedly sober supermodel has co-writing credits on four of the troubled singer's new tracks... and "French Dog Blues" isn't bad.

FEIST did an interview and mini-set for the World Cafe you can stream from NPR.  In its second week on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "1 2 3 4" has shot up to No. 28 from a No. 61 debut, on the strength of that Apple iPod Nano commercial. Its digital sales have almost doubled, from 41K downloads to 73K.

NELLE McKAY talks to the Boston Globe about working with respected jazz cats like sax men Phil Woods and David Liebman and quirky vocalist Bob Dorough on her third album.  The 80-something Dorough mentored her as a teen, and is also the voice to Schoolhouse Rock favorites like "Conjunction Junction."

AUGIE MARCH (whose name comes from the book "The Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow) stopped by The Current for an chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

BONO was in Philadelphia on Thursday night to accept the Liberty Award for his humanitarian work in Africa, but it was the current political unrest in Burma that was on his mind as he addressed the audience, which included one of last year's recipients, former President George H. W. Bush.

JOHN VANDERSLICE talks about the value of changing styles with the Washington Square News (Thx, LHB) and acting as an unstable narrator with Artvoice.

PAMELA ANDERSON & RICK SOLOMON (the French Hotel's sextape co-star) got hitched, according to the paparazzi at X17.  At the very least, they got a marriage license.  Third time's a charm for both of them, I'm sure.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  In a major upset, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had the winning Game Plan, beating The Kingdom at the cineplex by 22.7 million to 17,7 million.  The two were neck-and-neck on Friday, but The Game Plan pulled away when the familiues poured in on Sat and Sun.  It also spells trouble for The Kingdom, which reportedly has an 70-80 million budget to recoup.  Resident Evil: Extinction plummeted a huge 66 percent to earn a mere 8 mil in its second frame; Good Luck Chuck took in 6.3 mil on a 54 percent decline.  3:10 to Yuma rounded out the Top Five with 4.2 mil; the Western's total is 43.9 mil, which means it will likely break even in the US.  The Brave One continued to lose ground, earning 3.7 million on a 50 percent drop.  Mr.  Woodcock made 3 mil; it's 19.6 million total to date makes it unlikely to break even.  David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises dropped 49 percent to make 2.9 million.  Sydney White also drops 49 percent with a take of 2.7 million.  Across the Universe rounds out the Top Ten by growing 5 percent on a wider release, but its overall total is only 5.5 million.  Feast of Love opened in 11th place.

MISS MONEYPENNY:  Dead at 80.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  According to the uber-reliable Life and Style Weekly, friends and family are desperate for her to join Lindsay Lohan in rehab, after mama Lynne Spears received a phone call about the pop tart taking Ecstasy -- and anti-anxiety drug Ativan to come down from the Ecstasy.

LINDSAY LOHAN:  Her ex-con dad is heading to Utah next week to spend five days of "quality time" with his troubled daughter at the Cirque Lodge rehab facility.

EVA LONGORIA has a sex tape?  Inquiring minds want to know.

 

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Publicist David Hans Schmidt, who pleaded guilty last month to attempting to extort Tom Cruise, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Phoenix home on Friday.  Tom Cruise is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

DAVE NAVARRO, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction guitarist, has directed and co-written his first pr0n flick.

BRADGELINA:  Contrary to prior reports, Jolie has not been fired as the face of St. John... yet.  Jolie and Jennifer Aniston now have more than Pitt in common -- they have just scooped the joint title for Most Powerful Actress awarded by Guinness World Records.

NICOLE RICHIE has enrolled in an alcohol education class... though I would have thought she could teach one.

SHILPA SHETTY'S UK spokeswoman has denied that the Bollywood star was arrested in India over her kiss with Richard Gere.

OWEN WILSON, recovering from a suicide attempt, was visited by comedian Steve Coogan, whom Courtney Love claims dragged Wilson into a hard-living party lifestyle helped accelerate his downward spiral into drugs and depression.  Coogan has denied the accusations.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS:  A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television program presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.  ALso:  London's Independent reports that recent information on the kingdom's efforts to crack down on terrorist financing is almost non-existent.

TERROR in the US:  Investor's Business Daily looks at evidence from the Holy Land Foundation trial showing that several leaders of the Muslim establishment in the US over the last decade conspired to infiltrate the US political system, change Middle East policy, gradually Islamize America, and hatched a plot to fund overseas terrorists.

IRAN:  On Saturday, Iran's parliament approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the US Army "terrorist organizations," in apparent response to a US Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.  Call it the "I Know You Are, But What Am I? Act" of 2007.

IRAQ:  A senior leader of AQI responsible for bringing foreign fighters into the country and seizing and executing US soldiers in 2006 was killed Monday in a US airstrike.  A new GAO report found the average number of daily attacks decreased to 123 in August 2007 -- the lowest level since June 2006.  The report noted that attacks in Iraq normally increase during the month of Ramadan, but so far violence during Ramadan has fallen by almost 40 percent from last year.  US military deaths in Iraq stood at a 14-month low on Sunday.  Indeed, in September, violence was down in every category, especially deaths due to al Qaeda's suicide bombers and to Shiite death squads in Baghdad.

IRAQ II:   More than 30000 tribal members in Iraq have come forward to work with US and Iraqi forces over the past six months, a phenomenon that is spreading beyond Anbar province to Baghdad and other regions of the country.  The Iraqi gov't, at the urging of the US, has ordered Iraqi army and police units to integrate the volunteers into their operations.  However, questions remain over whether these alliances will hold, whether they can improve security in mixed-sectarian areas such as Diyala province and Baghdad, and whether they will promote stability and national reconciliation or spur Iraq's fragmentation by proliferating armed groups.  The "Concerned Citizens" movement has spread to cities like Tarmiyah and Baghdad, but have yet to get official sanction from the Iraqi gov't.

A BEAR under a bridge near Lake Tahoe is rescued after dangling for almost 24 hours.  Let's go to the video.

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:  A flock of green sheep...explained at the link.

BUNNY DUMPING:  Is there anything lower?

MISSOURI, now with more beaver than you can shake a gnewed stick at.

MATTHEW HIASL PAN -- a 26-year-old chimpanzee -- has been denied human status by an Austrian court.  Animal rights activists vow to appeal, because the chimp really has no interest in the matter.

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